dernier ressort

Example Sentences

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It was only, therefore, by the urgency of a despairing effort, as a dernier ressort, these had now sought the presence as petitioners, and naturally they dreaded denial.

From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Reid, Mayne

I immediately returned, and that I might have a dernier ressort, left my shawl in that I had first obtained.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various

If the Military kept whittling down our rations, if we were to be permitted only to nibble like so many birds, the vegetables might one day serve as a dernier ressort.

From The Siege of Kimberley by Phelan, T.

All facts connecting Lloyd with the case tend to his implication and guilt, and to prove that he adopted the dernier ressort of guilt— accusation and inculpation of another.

From The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) by Various

Should he, however, for any reasons, be unable, I am at your service as a dernier ressort.

From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 by Marchant, James